Deeside Dragons
Deeside Dragons | |
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City | Queensferry |
League | NIHL |
Conference | Division 1 North |
Founded | 2012 |
Operated | 2012 - present |
Home arena | Deeside Leisure Centre |
Colors | Red, Green & Black |
General manager | Shaun Bebbington |
Head coach | Mike Clancy |
Captain | James Parsons |
Media | Jakob Forster |
Website | https://dragonsihc.com/ |
Championships | |
Conference titles | 1 (2015/16) |
Playoff championships | 1 (2015/16) |
The Aspray Chester Deeside Dragons are a Welsh ice hockey team that play in the National Ice Hockey League, north division.[1] They play their games at Deeside Leisure Centre, Flintshire, and replaced the previous team Flintshire Freeze. They won the North League championship in the 2015/16 season, with a record of 24-3-1[2] as well as the 2015/16 Laidler Playoffs. For the 2022/23 season the club has Aspray Chester [3] as the clubs title sponsor.
The 2022/23 season sees the return of ice hockey to North Wales for the first time in over 2 years, due to the ice rink being used as a field hospital and later a vaccination centre for North East Wales.
In July 2015 it was reported that the Dragons had been bought by Red Hockey Limited,[4] a British Company who own the Telford Tigers English Premier League Ice Hockey team as well as having stakes in Manchester Phoenix and Bracknell Bees.
In 2015/16, the team won the league, gaining promotion to NIHL North 1 (Moralee). During the season there were issues between the owners of the Deeside Dragons and Flintshire County Council[2] which resulted in the ownership of the Dragons being removed from Red Hockey. Despite prior fears with the ownership of the Deeside Dragons logo these have been quelled with a rebranded logo. On the final home game of the 2015/16 season the Dragons were involved in an incident which saw their opponents Widnes Wild walk off the ice in the second period and refuse to continue the game.[5] Dragons player Alex Roberts received a three-game ban as a result of this incident.
In July 2016 it was announced that Scott McKenzie had left the Widnes Wild to join the Dragons as player-coach.[6] He left the following year.
At the end of the 2017/18 season the Dragons were relegated to the North Division 2 league.
Season-by-season record
Season | Position | Wins | Draws | Losses | ± |
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2012-13 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 88 |
2013-14 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 61 |
2014-15 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 31 |
2015-16 | 1 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 132 |
2017-18 (NIHL1) | 10 | 2 | 0 | 32 | -347 |
2018-19 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 21 | -43 |
2019-20 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 15 | 2 |
Club roster 2022-23
(*) Denotes a Non-British Trained player (Import)
Netminders | |||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Catches | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | Contract | ||
30 | Philip Pearson | L | (1987-08-05) 5 August 1987 (age 36) | Stockport, England | 2022 from Bradford Bulldogs | 22/23 | |||
37 | Michael Rogers | L | (1997-08-17) 17 August 1997 (age 26) | Warrington, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 |
Defencemen | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | Contract | |||
11 | Billy Perks | 2001 (age 21) | Wales | 2022 | 22/23 | |||||
13 | Matthew Wainwright | L | (1993-11-19) 19 November 1993 (age 30) | Chester, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
14 | Reece Cairney-Witter | L | (1995-02-14) 14 February 1995 (age 29) | Bradford, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
15 | Lewis Otley | R | (1999-07-30) 30 July 1999 (age 24) | Sheffield, England | 2022 from Malungs IF | 22/23 | ||||
19 | Joshua Richardson | R | 1998 (age 24) | Chorley, England | 2022 from Bradford Bulldogs | 22/23 | ||||
21 | Micheal Jones | R | (1981-09-04) 4 September 1981 (age 42) | England | 2022 | 22/23 | ||||
55 | Ross Kennedy | R | (1998-01-30) 30 January 1998 (age 26) | St Asaph, Wales | 2022 from Leeds Knights | 22/23 | ||||
91 | Marc Lovell | L | (1982-06-02) 2 June 1982 (age 41) | Chester, England | 2012 from Flintshire Freeze | 22/23 |
Forwards | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | Contract | |||
4 | Charlie Spridgeon | 2001 (age 21) | England | 2022 from Telford Tigers 2 | 22/23 | |||||
5 | James Parsons 'C' | L | (1987-09-22) 22 September 1987 (age 36) | St Asaph, Wales | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
7 | Alex Parry | (1992-07-01) 1 July 1992 (age 31) | England | 2022 from Altrincham Aces | 22/23 | |||||
9 | Gary Dixon | R | (1986-06-08) 8 June 1986 (age 37) | Liverpool, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
22 | Karl Bacon | Wales | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||||
23 | Simon Furnival | R | (1984-08-11) 11 August 1984 (age 39) | Warrington, England | 2022 | 22/23 | ||||
29 | Andy McKinney | R | (1991-04-13) 13 April 1991 (age 33) | Hamilton, ON, Canada | 2022 from Telford Tigers | 22/23 | ||||
33 | M.J. Clancy | L | (2000-06-17) 17 June 2000 (age 23) | Chester, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
61 | Jared Dickinson | R | (1994-09-17) 17 September 1994 (age 29) | Salford, England | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
72 | Chris Jones | R | (1988-05-25) 25 May 1988 (age 35) | Ely, England | 2022 | 22/23 | ||||
79 | Petr Valusiak* | L | (1986-09-07) 7 September 1986 (age 37) | Ostrava, Czechia | 2022 from Blackburn Hawks | 22/23 | ||||
88 | Christopher Keating | 1988 (age 34) | England | 2022 from Altrincham Aces | 22/23 |
Team Staff | ||||||||||
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No. | Nat. | Name | Acquired | Role | Place of birth | Joined From | ||||
Michael Clancy | 2022/23 | Head coach | Chester, England | Blackburn Hawks, NIHL 1 | ||||||
Matt Compton | 2018/19 | Assistant coach | Chester, England | |||||||
David Clancy | 2022/23 | Goaltending Coach | Rinteln, Germany | Blackburn Hawks, NIHL 1 | ||||||
Bruce Morton | 2014/15 | General Manager | England | |||||||
91 | Marc Lovell | 2016/17 | Player-Assistant Coach | Chester, England | ||||||
Charles Humphreys | 2022/23 | Equipment Manager | Wales | Blackburn Hawks, NIHL 1 |
2021/22 Outgoing
Outgoing | ||||||
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No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Leaving For |
References
- ^ "Deeside Dragons at eliteprospects.com". Eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ a b Powell, Dave (17 February 2016). "Deeside Dragons crowned Laidler Conference champions". Chesterchronicle. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ "Aspray Chester Title Sponsors of Deeside Dragons".
- ^ "Deeside Dragons Ice Hockey team bought by Red Hockey – Deeside.com". Archived from the original on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ^ Porter, Gary (4 April 2016). "Watch Deeside ice hockey bust up that left player with head injury and saw one team walk off". Dailypost.co.uk. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ Powell, Dave (14 July 2016). "Deeside Dragons appoint Scott McKenzie as new player/head coach". Chesterchronicle. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
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